If then and loops

[Michiel Spape]

Avoiding pedantry:
In basic you can just
if (condition1 and condition2) then ... which works almost exactly the same as the & in C (but not &&, which would be if (condition1) {if (condition2) {...}}. 

Anyway, the answer is much shorter:
IF (present.RESP = "z" and strHit2 = "aHi") or (strHit2 = "aLo" and strHit2 = "aMed") THEN

Confidence.RESP = strHit2

END IF

Note the end if. All on one line is also possible, but note it freaks out if you then use end if. THIS is what is exasperating - if not necessarily limitating - about ebasic. 
More likely, your code makes no sense in some other degree, though. Notice me putting in the brackets - they are useless - and comes before or anyway - but i think where you got stuck was in the length of the IF statement. I mean, strHit2 is never both aLo and aMed, right? In your original code it did not have an operator (or strHit2 = "aLo" strHit2 = ?), so, given a wild guess, you actually want something like this:
IF present.RESP = "z" and (strHit2 = "this" or strHit2 = "that" or strHit2 = "nothisactually") THEN
Confidence.RESP = strHit2
END IF

Notice that due to the precedence of and over or - both in C and basic - this is possible, but your previous code made little sense.
Best,
Mich
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From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick G [nick.gaspelin at gmail.com]
Sent: 20 October 2011 06:52
To: E-Prime
Subject: Re: If then and loops

You know in C you can just
if (condition1 && condition2)


On Oct 19, 11:47 pm, Nick G <nick.gaspe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The E-basic help doesn't say whether an if-then statement can have
> multiple conditions.  Seems limiting to not have that sort of
> functionality.
>
> -Nick
>
> On Oct 19, 11:15 pm, Peter Quain <pqu... at une.edu.au> wrote:
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> > try searching e-basic help for "If...Then...Else (statement)". Note
> > the conditions under which you need to close the conditional with "End If"
>
> > At 04:05 PM 20/10/2011, you wrote:
>
> > >I'm having trouble with the below code.  E-Prime seems to want a
> > >'then' statement immediately following the 'if' statement:
>
> > >if present.RESP = "z" and strHit2 = "aHi" or strHit2 = "aLo" strHit2 =
> > >"aMed" then
> > >                 Confidence.RESP = strHit2
>
> > >If one response on the present slide is selected, I just want E-Prime
> > >to allow one of the three responses in the string hits.  How should
> > >this code look?
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